Believe it or not, there are two questions on @StackOverflowR about how to make QR codes in R. I personally think QR codes are kinda hokey, but who am I to argue with pressing needs of the #rstats community? I found libqrencode and it’s highly brew-able and apt-able (probably yum-able, too, if you

The Surgeon Scorecard Two weeks ago, the world of medical journalism was rocked by the public release of ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard. In this project ProPublica “calculated death and complication...

This afternoon, we’ve seen in the training on data science that it was possible to use AIC criteria for model selection. > library(splines) > AIC(glm(dist ~ speed, data=train_cars, family=poisson(link="log")))...

by Bob Muenchen The recently-created R Consortium consists of companies that are deeply involved in R such as RStudio, Microsoft/Revolution Analytics, Tibco, and others. The Consortium’s goals include advancing...